Architect Magazine features The Hip Hop Architecture Camp.
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The Hip Hop Architecture Camp was held every Saturday in the month of February, in Madison Wisconsin. The camp was sponsored by The City of Madison's Planning Department, Capital Area Regional Planning Commission, Madison Public Library, Madison College and University of Wisconsin School of Education and focused on allowing the youth to participate in the creation of Madison's comprehensive plan, which looks 20 years into the future planning of The City.
Thanks to Madison 365 for the great coverage during The Hip Hop Architecture Camp in Madison and these awesome video interviews with the participants!
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Judging The American Institute of Architects "I Look Up Film Challenge"
I am honored to be asked to be invited to judge The American Institute of Architect’s third annual I Look Up Film Challenge which invites architects and filmmakers to collaborate in bringing architectural stories to life. This year’s challenge calls for films that highlight projects and architects that are helping to change communities for the better.
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ESPN Undefeated Features The Hip Hop Architecture Camp
On June 7, 2017, ESPN Undefeated featured The Hip Hop Architecture Camp.
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Anticipating change means understanding your clients
On the final day of AIA Conference on Architecture 2017, a panel of innovators and a famed behavioral scientist took the stage in Orlando with a theme of "Anticipate Change," addressing what's next for architecture and design's evolution.
The panel, led by Frances Anderton, host of DnA: Design and Architecture, featured Michael Ford, Assoc. AIA; Cheryl McAfee, FAIA; and Nóra Demeter, Intl. Assoc. AIA, all speaking to the opportunities at architecture's frontier. "The theme today should be called 'affect change,' because each of these designers is really trying, and achieving, to steer the profession in new directions in terms of access and architectural expression itself," Anderton said.
Read MoreCityLab: The Future of 'Hip-Hop Architecture'
Ford is currently helping lead a design justice movement around that idea. He’s also working as the lead architect for the forthcoming Universal Hip Hop Museum, which he calls “the first representation of hip-hop architecture in the world.” In February, Ford launched a hip-hop architecture youth camp in Madison, Wisconsin, where city youth worked with city planners on the Imagine Madison city comprehensive plan. He hopes to replicate that in other cities this year.
Read MoreVideo: Hip Hop Architecture Camp - Mini Documentary
The Hip Hop Architecture Camp is an initiative of The Urban Arts Collective. This mini documentary takes you behind the scenes of the kick off which took place in Madison Wisconsin with local sponsors including, The University of Wisconsin Madison, The City of Madison Planning Department, Capital Area Regional Planning Commission, Madison Public Library and The Wisconsin Chapter of The American Institute of Architects. For more information about The Hip Hop Architecture Camp, including volunteering or helping to organize a camp in your city, visit: www.HipHopArchitecture.com
Read MoreVideo: Hip Hop Architecture TEDTalk & Hip Hop Architecture Camp
Michael Ford, The Hip Hop Architect took the stage as part of TEDXMadison to present Hip Hop Architecture: The Post Occupancy Report of Modernism. Ford's presentation was the continuation of his national Hip Hop Architecture Lecture Tour, which included a recent stop at SXSW in Austin, Texas for a discussion on Remixing Architecture with Hip Hop Culture, an upcoming keynote at The 2017 American Institute of Architects National Conference on Architecture in Orlando, Florida for a discussion on "Anticipate Change: What's Next in Architecture" and a lecture at Tuskegee University.
Read MoreWhy Diversity in Architecture Matters for Communities and the Bottom Line
Diversity is good for business. According to a McKinsey & Company report, U.S. public companies with diverse executive boards have a 95 percent higher return on equity than those without. Bullock echoes this point: “A firm will be more financially successful if it has more women and people of color as part of its workforce.”
Firms can remain relevant, foster innovation, come up with better solutions for the communities they serve, and improve their bottom line by taking concrete steps to create a culture that fosters diversity in architecture. “Diversity and inclusion does not happen by itself,” Bullock says.
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“Express Yourself” Shows Off Unique Visions for Madison’s Future
The energy for week one of the innovative Hip-Hop Architecture Camp at the Madison Central Library was going to be tough to beat, but week two was lively and spirited in its own right as area youth came together to explore architecture, urban planning, and economic development through the lens of hip-hop culture while simultaneously aligning with the City of Madison’s Planning Department’s mission to gather and use opinions of each and every Madisonian to update the City’s 20-Year Comprehensive Plan.
AIA 2017 Keynote: Anticipate Change: What's Next in Architecture
At the 2017 AIA Conference on Architecture, participants will view a one-of-a-kind panel, you’ll hear three speakers who will discuss how to anticipate and acclimate to what’s next for the architecture profession.
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Community Remix: The Hip Hop Architecture Camp Breaks Down Walls to Build Bridges
The Hip Hop Architecture Camp kicked off this Saturday. Thanks to our local media partner, Madison365 for their coverage. The Hip Hop Architecture Camp is an initiative of The Urban Arts Collective and its mission is to effectively engage youth and encourage them to explore careers in architecture and urban planning.
Read MoreThe Hip Hop Architecture Camp
The Hip Hop Architecture Camp is a month long camp with a mission is to expose underrepresented middle and high school students to architecture, urban planning and economic development through the lens of hip hop culture. The camp sessions will take place every Saturday during the month of February at Madison's Central Library.
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AIA Board of Directors approves equity initiatives
Washington, D.C. – December 15, 2016 – The American Institute of Architects (AIA) Board of Directors have announced a second donation of $1,000,000 to the Diversity Advancement Scholarship fund, aimed at improving equity, diversity and inclusion among people entering the profession. This builds upon the $1,000,000 already earmarked in 2013 for the Diversity Advancement Scholarships, administered by the AIA Foundation.
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Call For Universal Hip Hop Museum Student Ambassadors
Nominate yourself or a friend to become a Universal Hip Hop Museum Student Ambassador.
Do you know a college student who has incorporated hip hop culture into their academics or planned events dedicated to the advancement of hip hop culture on their college campus or in their community? Do they live in Detroit, Atlanta, New York or Los Angeles? If so, we want to honor your nominee as our one of our inaugural Universal Hip Hop Museum Student Ambassadors.
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The Hip Hop Architect's Recent Publications
Below is a list of the recent publications which focus on my research involving the intersection of hip hop culture and architecture.
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Youths fly a kite in a street bordered with firegutted buildings in the South Bronx section of New York City in June, 1977. The Carter Administration has agreed to revive urban renewal projects in an effort to revive the neighborhood. | AP Images
The hip-hop architect on how music and the environment can influence one another
Thanks to Curbed for the article.
"From its early roots in the Bronx to its current status as a worldwide cultural movement, hip-hop has never lost its street-level sensibility. When writing songs, rappers and lyricists trade in the currency of credibility, constantly dropping the names of street corners, city neighborhoods, even specific buildings and housing projects to connect listeners with the urban environment.
Hip-hop is often about place. And, according to Ford, it is place—often poorly designed, underfunded, and cut off from the rest of the city through bad urban planning and structural racism—that birthed the genre. Ford, who has been tapped to design the forthcoming Universal Hip-Hop Museum in the Bronx, has helped coin the term “hip-hop architecture,” popularizing the concept as a lens for looking at the intersections of culture and the built environment.
But it’s not just about looking back at the ways urban planning and housing policy created the environment for new forms of music; it’s how the ethics and ethos of hip-hop can help inspire new solutions for designing our cities."
Keynote Conversation: Designing a Just City- Hip Hop Architecture [Video]
Watch Wednesday's Keynote conversation between the Director of the Arts Council in New Orleans, Bryan Lee Jr., the Hip Hop Architect Michael Ford, and Forbes Senior Editor, Zack Greenburg. — Keynote Conversation: Designing a Just City - Hip Hop Architecture.
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Hip Hop Architecure Featured at SXSWEco
Michael Ford, Assoc. AIA, is a finalist (and a recently added keynote speaker) and will be showcasing how hip-hop can be a catalyst to engage underrepresented groups in the field of architecture.
“I will be sharing my concept for the Universal Hip Hop Museum mobile experience," he says, "which was developed alongside hip-hop pioneers. We plan on touring in various cities with the mission to showcase hip-hop culture while also collecting regional specific, undocumented hip-hop histories and their relationship to the built environment.”
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